Leadership: Practical Leadership Skills
Delegating, motivating and planning so your team performs without burning you out
Created by Chukwuemeka Ajoku
What you'll learn
- Apply practical leadership techniques to lead a team more consistently and effectively.
- Evaluate your own leadership behaviour and remove habits that reduce trust and credibility.
- Delegate work using the right level of direction, support and follow-up for the task and the person.
- Build a motivated, happier working environment by tailoring your approach to different team members.
- Explain major academic theories of leadership and apply them to everyday leadership decisions.
- Use a broad toolkit of practical methods for communication, monitoring, coaching and planning.
- Compare delegating styles and justify which style is appropriate in a given situation.
- Involve employees in decision-making and planning using clear, structured methods.
- Reallocate more time from day-to-day firefighting to future planning, improvement and strategic thinking.
- Develop team capability so the team becomes more self-sufficient and less dependent on you.
This course includes
- 4h 6m of learning
- 25 lessons
- 6 quizzes
- Access on mobile and desktop
- Full lifetime access
- Certificate of completion
Course content
6 sections • 26 lectures • 4h 6m total length
- What Great Leaders Actually Do 10m
- Credibility, Trust and Common Leadership Mistakes 10m
- Managing Yourself and Your Time as a Leader 9m
- Why Being Replaceable Is a Strength 10m
- Quiz: The Leader’s Role, Credibility and Time 6 questions
- What Motivates People in Practice 9m
- Personalising Your Leadership Approach 11m
- Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse 11m
- Creating a Happy, Accountable Team Environment 10m
- Quiz: Motivation, Communication and Team Environment 6 questions
- Choosing What to Delegate 9m
- Delegation Styles and Levels of Freedom 10m
- Monitoring Without Micromanaging 11m
- Building Confidence and Skill Through Coaching 9m
- Quiz: Delegation, Monitoring and Developing People 6 questions
- Practical Leadership Styles for Different Situations 9m
- Academic Leadership Theories Made Practical 11m
- Involving Employees in Decision-Making 9m
- Running Productive Planning Conversations and Meetings 10m
- Quiz: Leadership Styles, Theories and Shared Decision-Making 6 questions
- Simple Systems to Keep Performance Visible 10m
- Handling Performance Problems Early and Fairly 11m
- Planning for the Future Instead of Firefighting 9m
- Work/Life Balance and Sustainable Leadership Habits 11m
- Quiz: Performance, Future Planning and Sustainable Leadership 6 questions
- Final assessment: Leadership: Practical Leadership Skills 12 questions
Requirements
- Current or imminent responsibility for managing at least two people
- Some workplace experience making decisions, allocating work and giving feedback
- Willingness to reflect on current leadership habits and test new approaches with a real team
Description
This course turns leadership from something vague into a set of practical skills you can apply straight away. It is built for people who already manage at least two people and want to lead more effectively, delegate with confidence, motivate different personalities and spend less time firefighting.
You will work through the core behaviours of effective leadership, common mistakes that damage credibility, practical delegation methods, ways to involve employees in decisions, and simple approaches to keeping your finger on the pulse without micromanaging. Academic leadership theories are included, but always translated into day-to-day choices a manager actually has to make.
By the end, you will have a usable leadership toolkit for work and home: clearer priorities, a happier environment, stronger team capability and more time to focus on the future instead of doing everything yourself.
Instructor
Chukwuemeka Ajoku
- 16 courses
A Skilled Programmer